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['Les Chats' title page]
Photograph of the title page of the book 'Les Chats' by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif. Beneath the title is a crest-like illustration, possibly by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Beneath that is text that reads "A Paris, Chez Gabriel-François Quillau; Fils, Imp. Lib. Jur. de l'Univesité, rue Galande, à l'Annonciation. M. DCC. XXVII. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy."
[Echoes of France]
Photographs of "Echoes of France" by Amy Robbins Ware, held by UNT Special Collections. The cover is dark blue with a rubricated title and illustration enclosed in a black-stamped frame. Image 2, inscription on inside of cover written in pencil. On the left page is a stamped design. This image in Echoes from France by Amy Robbins Ware, an American nurse in France during WWI, demonstrates the kind of tensions generated by the coexistence of photographs and text. Image 3, pages 40 and 41. The page on the left has a black and white photo of a woman in a dress and gas mask, the page on the right a poem titled "J'attends, C'est la Guerre." Although the book contains no photographs of abject gore, it does feature this photo of a woman with a gas mask as a haunting reminder of such horror and an effacement of the familiar, such that the woman now wears the large dark eyes and proboscis reminiscent of insect life. The text at the bottom works against the tone of estrangement by way of the domesticating rhetoric of “little tin derby” in the place of “helmet.” The diminutive qualifier is not supported by the photo and so suggests a note of endearment and thereby emotional mastery. Similarly the poem to the left of the photograph turns its focus from the destructive power of the “Gothas,” the heavy bombers of the German Luftstreitkräfte, to “Life’s great adventure” and nostalgic invocations, however fleeting their comforts. Whereas the reassurance of a human face, no less real than the uniform before us, lies beneath the mask in the photograph, the terror of war lies beneath the rhetorical surface of the poem, whose imagistic force is for the most part diffused by familiarity of diction and detail. Both the …
[Engraving and text in 'Les Chats']
Photograph of the book "Les Chats" by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif, resting in a cradle with the pages held open to a fold-out, full-page engraving done by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Some of the cats in the engraving are dressed as humans would be during the time-period while others are in the posture of everyday cats. They are in a scene on the roof of a building. The page next to it is in French and includes footnotes for the text.
[Engraving in 'Les Chats']
Photograph of an engraving in the book "Les Chats" by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif. The engraving is a fold-out, full-page piece done by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres. Some of the cats in the engraving are dressed as humans would be during the time-period while others are in the posture of everyday cats. They are in a scene on the roof of a building. The pages are held open with a clear, plastic band.
[Henri Matisse, Jazz]
Photographs of Henri Matisse's "Jazz", held by UNT Special Collections. Jazz is a series of works by artist Henri Matisse, which shows circus scenes cut out of colored paper. This is the first example of Matisse working in this way, which would eventually be his main method of creating art. The cover contains the title in pink lettering, and one of his works on the right with different blocks of color. Image 2, the page shown is titled “Nightmare of the White Elephant” and shows a circus elephant performing a trick. Matisse described the elephant as dreaming of his long-lost childhood in the jungle, with the red flames symbolizing his anguish.
[Page from 'Les Chats']
Photograph of a page from the book 'Les Chats' by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif. The page is wholly text and includes footnotes at the bottom. On the next page, which is partially visible, is a full-page engraving print by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres.
[Pages from 'Les Chats']
Photograph of the book 'Les Chats' by François Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif propped open on a cradle with one side's pages held with a clear plastic band. The left page is wholly text and includes footnotes at the bottom, while the right page is a full-page engraving print by Anne-Claude-Philipe de Tubieres.
[Photograph of Nikhil Moro]
Photograph of Nikhil Moro, a professor in the Mayborn School of Journalism at UNT, teaching his class Comparative International Communication.
[Puzzle map of Africa]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of Africa when it is completed. There is a blue border and the map itself shows the full continent with the oceans on either side.
[Puzzle map of Asia]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of Asia when it is completed. There is a blue border along the edge and the map itself shows the full continent with the oceans around the land.
[Puzzle map of Europe]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of Europe when it is completed. There is a blue border and the map itself shows from the arctic circle to the Mediterranean Sea.
[Puzzle map of France]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of France when completed. There is a blue border around the edge and different sections of France are colored green, red, blue, and yellow.
[Puzzle map of North America]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of North America when it is completed. There is a blue border and the map itself shows from the arctic circle to Panama. Both oceans are also included on either side.
[Puzzle map of South America]
A photograph of a puzzle that shows a map of South America when it is completed. There is a blue border and the map itself shows from the northern tip to the southern tip of the continent. Both oceans are also included on either side.
[Puzzle map of the globe]
Two photographs of a puzzle that shows a map of the globe when completed. There is a blue border around the edge and the map is split between two connected circles. The left has Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia on it and the right has the Americas on it. In the second photo two of the pieces aren't in place.
[Two souvenir plates on display]
Photo of two lithographic souvenir plates on display in the reading room of Kent State University Special Collections. They are part of the Crime-related Artifacts collection. The one on the left depicts a prisoner in front of a judge saying "Mr. Le Judge me cite deux temoins qui m'ont vu moi je lui en citreai plus de mille qui ne m'ont pas vu.", meaning "His Honor cites me two witnesses who saw me; but I will cite more that a thousand of them who didn't see me." The one on the right shows a man standing in front of an empty safe with hands on his head. The legend reads "Ou est le cassier?", meaning "Where is the cashier?" A group of attendees visited the archives on the first day of the 49th annual CSLA conference that was held at Kent State University from June 27-29 in 2016.
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